Queensland Election: More MPs join Alan Jones defamation action

More LNP MPs, including Health Minister Lawrence Springborg, have joined the defamation action against broadcaster Alan Jones.

Premier Campbell Newman and Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney lodged legal action in the Brisbane Supreme Court on Thursday, something Jones announced on Friday morning during his radio show.

More LNP MPs are joining the defamation action against broadcaster Alan Jones.

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Director-General of the Premier's Department, Jon Grayson, is also understood to be taking action, but because he is a public servant, it would be the taxpayer which funded his suit.

Jones derailed the Queensland election campaign on Monday when he began the first of his "special" Brisbane broadcasts on Fairfax Radio 4BC and has spent the time since taking aim at the Newman government over its approval of the New Hope Acland coal mine stage three development.

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Jones claimed Mr Newman had visited him before the 2012 election and told him he opposed the project, which was approved late last year.

Jones also highlighted donations which New Hope parent company, Washington H Soul Pattinson, made to both the federal and state Coalition, and linked them to the approval of the mine project.

Assistant minister to the Premier, Deb Frecklington, has also joined the defamation suit and Ian Rickuss, the LNP member for Lockyer, was also considering taking part.

A spokesman for Mr Springborg confirmed his involvement in the legal action.

His legal action will be funded by the LNP and not the taxpayer.

Fairfax radio 4BC is also being sued as the broadcaster. It is understood no LNP advertising has appeared on 4BC and its sister station Magic 882 - which is not broadcasting Jones's program - since Monday, when it first began.

Clive Palmer, who in an unrelated matter is suing Mr Newman and Mr Seeney for defamation, has offered to financially support Jones's defence.

Mr Newman has defended taking defamation action against Jones just a week before Queenslanders go to the polls, denying it was a stunt to detract from campaign issues.

At a laundry washing factory in Brisbane's south west on Friday morning, Mr Newman said he was the victim of a smear campaign - echoing a complaint he made in the 2012 campaign and blamed then-Premier Anna Bligh.

"In 2012 we saw a dishonest smear campaign from the Labor Party because they had no policies or plans for Queensland," he said.

"In 2015, we see a similar smear campaign from the Labor Party and we also see Mr Jones saying things that are totally untrue and that is why he will have to justify those statements in court."